Devil We Know

Nick Hillary is hunted by his own town after the death of a 12-year-old boy, and he must find a way to prove that he's not the killer. But the person driving the investigation is someone with a mean streak and a grudge against Nick: that somebody is the sheriff's deputy, and he's got a team of police and lawyers that will do anything to put Nick away — even if it means breaking the law.

Written and researched by David Wayne Young


SOURCES:

W.T. Eckert of NNY360
https://www.nny360.com/news/nick-hillary-found-not-guilty-in-murder-trial/article_e8bf5bf5-4184-5412-9cdf-3c346acd095b.html
https://www.nny360.com/news/da-to-provide-video-footage/article_8a916eaa-a749-5b85-86c9-0b22fe13884d.html
https://www.nny360.com/news/tunnel-vision/article_2c317a90-1d97-5970-b8a8-1b6e83c901af.html

Jesse McKinley of The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/nyregion/murder-of-garrett-phillips-in-potsdam-new-york.html

NBC News and Dateline NBC
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/new-murder-indictment-issued-against-oral-nick-hillary/3321563
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/five-year-journey-garrett-phillips-case-n657616

Liz Garbus’s docuseries, Who Killed Garrett Phillips?
https://play.hbonow.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GXQzpogISIRVyiQEAAAJB
https://play.hbonow.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GXQJfXgd098N3wwEAAAA1

Garrett Phillips was a small-town boy in upstate New York. His mother, Tandy Cyrus, had just broken up with a man of color, one of the only in this predominantly white town. She even had begun rekindling with a cop she dated once before: a cop who had stalked her, abused her, sued her and threatened her during and after their relationship. Needless to say, Garrett's life wasn't as quiet as the small-town boy's life should be. But on October 24, 2011, Garrett's life would be snuffed out by a mystery hand, and suddenly, Tandy's track record in dating calls into question the first and only suspect for a homicide investigation gone bad.
By David Wayne Young


SOURCES:

W.T. Eckert of NNY360
https://www.nny360.com/news/tunnel-vision/article_2c317a90-1d97-5970-b8a8-1b6e83c901af.html
https://www.nny360.com/news/nick-hillary-found-not-guilty-in-murder-trial/article_e8bf5bf5-4184-5412-9cdf-3c346acd095b.html

Tim Grierson of MEL Magazine
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/nick-hillary-who-killed-garrett-phillips-interview

Dateline NBC
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/five-year-journey-garrett-phillips-case-n657616

Jordan Ritter Conn of Grantland Magazine
https://grantland.com/features/a-nightmare-in-potsdam-nick-hillary-soccer-coach-clarkson-university-trial-garrett-phillips-killing/

Liz Garbus’s HBO docu-series, Who Killed Garrett Phillips?
https://play.hbonow.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GXQzpogISIRVyiQEAAAJB
https://play.hbonow.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GXQJfXgd098N3wwEAAAA1

Jesse McKinley of the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/nyregion/murder-of-garrett-phillips-in-potsdam-new-york.html

A farmer works all day to provide for his family; soon after, he discovers his wife is cheating on him. When she decides she’s going to leave him, she suddenly turns up dead with a corn rake in her back. When Todd, the husband, tells her to go to hell over the 911 call, questions about Todd and his motives start to rise. Learn about the way Todd and Amy Mullis lived their lives in separate paranoias, and how a jury came to convict him of murder.

Written by David Young

Sound Engineer: Chaes Gray from Gray Multimedia

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SOURCES:
Alberto Luperon from Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/live-trials-current/todd-mullis/prosecutor-confronts-todd-mullis-asks-if-he-called-his-dying-wife-a-cheating-whore-during-911-call/
https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/live-trials-current/todd-mullis/this-was-todd-mulliss-best-attempt-to-explain-away-shady-web-searches-on-his-ipad/

Janelle Tucker of KMCH Mix Radio
https://kmch.com/blog/2019/09/18/son-testifies-at-mullis-murder-trial/
https://kmch.com/blog/2019/09/18/frasher-called-to-testify-at-mullis-murder-trial/

Chris Harris of People Magazine
https://people.com/crime/iowa-wife-warned-friends-her-husband-might-kill-her-before-she-was-found-impaled-with-farm-tool/

Leonard Muller Funeral Home and Crematory
https://www.leonard-mullerfh.com/notices/Amy-Mullis

Erik Hogstrom of the Manchester Press
https://www.manchesterpress.com/news/dubuque-murder-trial-field-manager-testifies-about-affair-with-woman/article_2f51b567-0da5-514e-8cca-f90f1bcfdcbc.html
https://www.manchesterpress.com/news/update-dubuque-murder-trial-woman-stabbed-by-corn-rake-at/article_12763b1b-46d9-55a4-98a0-f0075e28e9d0.html#tncms-source=article-nav-next

Ashley Scott of KWWL News
https://kwwl.com/news/2019/09/18/witness-testimony-mullis-marriage/

Dorian Geiger of Oxygen
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/todd-mullis-trial-murder-wife-amy-rake-hog-farm-iowa

Antonia Noori Farzan of the Washington Post

A new harbinger of death and terror stepped into the spotlight in the early 1980s for the women of the Twin Cities area. Paul Michael Stephani, also known as the Weepy-Voiced Killer, would become one of the strangest serial killer cases in American history, due to his habit of calling in his own crimes, each time doing so with an emotional, high-pitched whine that earned him his unfortunate nickname. Listen now to learn what Stephani did to earn the name, today on Devil We Know. A special thanks to Father Syn (@thesynfulshow on Twitter), from The Synful Show podcast, whose voice accompanies Aaron's in the story of this strange case.

Written and researched by David Wayne Young



SOURCES:

Cold Case Files: Weepy-Voiced Killer (2001)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096785/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

Murderpedia
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stephani-paul.htm

Investigation Discovery's Murder Calls: 911 Tapes, Ep. 3
https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/murder-calls-911-tapes/full-episodes/the-weepy-voiced-killer

Margaret Zack, Paul Klauda, Allie Shah, Jim Parsons, Curt Brown and Herón Márquez Estrada of the Star Tribune from 1981 to 1997

Chippewa Herald-Telegram of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and Associated Press

Put together a doctor with schizophrenia and an affair with an unstable nursing student, what do you get? For the MacNeill family, it was nothing good at all. In fact, Martin MacNeill's wife, Michele, didn't even make it out alive.

Written by David Young, Researched by Haley Gray

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SOURCES:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/09/21381212-utah-doctor-martin-macneill-guilty-of-killing-wife-leaving-her-in-tub

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865590264/Jury-convicts-Martin-MacNeill-of-murdering-his-wife-in-2007.html?pg=all

https://web.archive.org/web/20131109210505/http://www.hlntv.com/interactive/2013/10/24/macneill-trial-timeline?hpt=hln10_1

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865590296/Martin-MacNeill-timeline.html?pg=all

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865685284/Martin-MacNeills-prison-death-officially-ruled-a-suicide.html

https://www.insideedition.com/new-details-emerge-2020-examination-utah-mother-michele-macneills-murder-53701

https://abc.go.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2019-06/14-The-Perfect-Nanny

https://web.archive.org/web/20131029060614/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/10/24/macneill-martin-doctor-wife-murder-utah-rachel-daughter

https://web.archive.org/web/20131119070552/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/10/15/what-really-killed-michele-macneill

https://web.archive.org/web/20131105005125/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/11/01/martin-macneill-murder-trial-wife-drug-drown-expert

https://web.archive.org/web/20131103143126/http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/10/30/macneill-martin-doctor-wife-murder-alexis-daughter

Joseph Miranda was a young man with a robust family life and a passion for the natural world. In his attempt to learn more about his dream career, his days were cut short by an industrial vehicle, and his mother Adrienne began to note strange happenings that occurred around or following Joseph’s death. Her search for the truth

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Written by:
David Young - @david_theginger

Sources:
http://www.thescentofmyson.com/about-the-author.html
Adrienne Miranda, first-person account (mother of murder victim Joseph Miranda)

First-ever bonus episode, to showcase our new Patron-only minisodes, available at www.Patreon.com/DevilWeKnowPodcast. A New York resident goes about his daily routine before work, dropping off his kid at daycare. It was only after his 8-hour shift that he remembers his other two, who were in the car the whole time. The man, Juan Rodriguez, faces current charges against him for negligent homicide, among others. Learn about this current case tonight on Devil We Know, your new favorite true crime podcast.

SOURCES:
https://abc7ny.com/criminal-case-put-on-hold-against-father-involved-in-twins-hot-car-deaths/5434613/
https://gothamist.com/2019/07/29/twins_hot_car_death_bronx.php
https://nypost.com/2019/07/27/dad-who-left-twins-in-hot-car-is-a-social-worker-described-as-an-amazing-father/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/a-tragedy-of-horrific-proportions-iraq-war-vet-charged-with-manslaughter-after-leaving-twins-in-hot-car
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/juan-rodriguez-hot-car-twins-death-not-guilty-iraq-vet
https://nypost.com/2019/07/28/mom-of-twins-left-to-die-in-hot-car-speaks-out-defends-husband/

Joseph Miranda was a young man with a robust family life and a passion for the natural world. In his attempt to learn more about his dream career, his days were cut short by an industrial vehicle, and his mother Adrienne began to note strange happenings that occurred around or following Joseph’s death. Her search for the truth

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Written by:
David Young - @david_theginger

Sources:
http://www.thescentofmyson.com/about-the-author.html
Adrienne Miranda, first-person account (mother of murder victim Joseph Miranda)

Cheater and con artist Christopher Leclair was in debt, his wife was trying to fix their marriage, and his girlfriend had just given him an ultimatum: "Her or me." He took it a little too literally, Leaving his wife at the bottom of a lake. Karen Leclair, the wife and a "ray of light" to the community, never knew this side of the man she married.

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Written by:
David Young - @david_theginger

Sources:
https://torontosun.com/2017/08/31/hubby-dumped-wifes-body-into-lake-erie-cops/wcm/2b39deed-81cd-4b74-a70a-a22f75aefd57
https://people.com/crime/dad-fisherman-accused-lake-erie-murdering-wife-allegedly-confesses/
https://www.ellwoodcityledger.com/news/20170716/homicide-defendant-had-strong-connection-to-lake-erie
https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/35667321/co-workers-react-to-murder-charges-in-the-case-of-missing-woman-karen-leclair
https://www.goerie.com/news/20170709/lake-erie-homicide-victim-remembered-as-kindhearted
https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/35667321/co-workers-react-to-murder-charges-in-the-case-of-missing-woman-karen-leclair
https://www.goerie.com/news/20181012/signs-of-premeditation-doom-husband-in-lake-erie-murder
https://www.goerie.com/news/20181211/husband-gets-life-in-prison-for-wifes-lake-erie-murder
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/07/fisherman_charged_in_wifes_lak.html
https://people.com/crime/pa-man-murders-wife-dumps-body-anchor-lake-erie/
https://www.yourerie.com/news/local-news/mistress-takes-stand-on-day-three-of-christopher-leclair-murder-trial/
https://www.goerie.com/news/20170710/timeline-in-leclair-homicide-case
https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/39277712/christopher-leclair-convicted-on-all-charges-for-shooting-death-of-wife-on-lake-erie

It was late in the day on December 16, 2000, when Jerry Michael Williams failed to return home from a day of duck hunting on Lake Seminole. It was also his 6th wedding anniversary. His frantic wife Denise Williams, called the Tallahassee Florida police department to report him missing. After an exhaustive search, it was believed he fell out of his boat, and was eaten by alligators. It would take another 17 years before the truth of that night would come to light. A truth that was in fact much darker than anyone had imagined.

Denise Interrogation video:
https://www.tallahassee.com/videos/news/2018/06/01/watch-denise-williams-interviewed-law-enforcement/35574715/

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Written by:
David Young - @david_theginger

Researched by:
EJ Hammon @RoseDysfunction